"The Beat Goes On" Special Event (Continuously updated)

On this continuously updated page, we will provide you a brief live coverage of today's "The Beat Goes On" special event, during which Apple is expected to unveil new music-related products.

MacScoop's most recent information describes a thinner than the iPhone touch-screen iPod.

Event starts
- Jobs enters, as usually starts with some figures
- 600 million iTunes copies downloaded
- 3 billion songs
- 95 million TV shows
iTunes 8 New iTunes feature
- Custom ringtone maker, add $0.99 for each ringtone convert from any song
iPod
- 110 million sold so far
- today we replace/update the linups
- iPod shuffle comes in red, 1GB, still $79
- new iPod nano smaller
- incredibly smaller, even thinner
- new UI with high res artwork
- 24 hours of battery life (5 hours for video)
- 4GB $149, 8GB $199
- The normal iPod is renamed iPod Classic
- it's smaller/thinner and with metalic enclosure
- comes in 80GB (very thin) and 160GB versions (40 000 songs)
- 25 hours of music playback, 7 hours of video
- iPod Touch
- Thinner! (our report was accurate!)
- touch screen and exactly the same UI as the iPhone, with cover flow, pinch
- it has Wifi
- unlocks with finger-slide, like the iPhone
- some jokes on the Zune :)
- has Safari, YouTube, automatic wifi network detection
- 8GB $399, 16GB $399
One More Thing: iTunes Wifi Store
- download songs right from your iPod Touch
- with free previews, like on the Mac
- same pricing for the songs
- partnership with Starbucks
- iPhone will get iTunes Wifi Store as well
- iPod/iPhone detects when you're in a Starbucks and a new icon appears on iTunes Wifi with a playlist of songs playing there.
- no log-in required when in the Starbucks
- 5800 wifi enabled stores in the U.S.
- you can buy your songs at the starbucks store and have it on your iPod Touch's playlist
- you can sync back to the Mac when home
- M$ just announced $50 price cut on the Zune, LOL :) Reuters report here.
- Apple drops the iPhone's price $200!!! the 8GB now costs only $399, the 4GB is no more!
- KT Tunstall performance
EVENT ENDS